Abortion
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@baron-silas-greenback what a wierd approach.
Outrage people by the ickyness of foetal waste and change the meaning of the word baby, so that you get your way.
Straight out of the looney left playbookForce people to watch hip replacement, brain surgery and amputations too?
Errrr ok.....
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@no-quarter said in Abortion:
Yeah, which is why I posed the question:
"if your partner was 3 months pregnant with your child which you both wanted to keep, and someone kicked her in the stomach repeatedly killing the baby inside, would you want them to be charged with assault or murder?"
Nobody has attempted to answer that one yet...
If it was deliberately aimed at ending the pregnancy, I would want them charged with killing an unborn child (yes, that's a crime here). If they didn't know the woman was pregnant, then it's hard to think of what to charge with - probably just serious assault with an effect on sentencing.
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What timeline is this?
Big corporations threatening to pull out of a state unless they stop a law which will prevent an abortion after 6 weeks.
When did abortions become such an indisputable moral good that corporations think its a good idea to try and hold a state to ransom? Looking forward to Trumps tweet telling them to go folau themselves.
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WarnerMedia - owner of HBO, CNN and the Warner Bros studio - said on Thursday that it will "reconsider Georgia as the home to any new productions" if the legislation becomes law. That echoed remarks made by Disney chief executive Bob Iger on Wednesday. He told Reuters it would be "very difficult" to keep film production in the state if abortion ban is upheld.
"I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard," he said. "Right now we are watching it very carefully."
Seems reasonable to me.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
What timeline is this?
Big corporations threatening to pull out of a state unless they stop a law which will prevent an abortion after 6 weeks.
I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard
There's a business interest there. But it's a really tough question - how activist should a business be?
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
What timeline is this?
Big corporations threatening to pull out of a state unless they stop a law which will prevent an abortion after 6 weeks.
When did abortions become such an indisputable moral good that corporations think its a good idea to try and hold a state to ransom? Looking forward to Trumps tweet telling them to go folau themselves.
They are just threatening, read the articles and they are just virtue signalling and left themselves plenty of wriggle room.
For example
"Ozark star Jason Bateman joined Hillbilly Elegy producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, who will direct the project, in vowing to cease production in Georgia if the heartbeat law goes into effect."We felt we could not abandon the hundreds of women, and men, whose means of support depend on this production - including those who directly contribute on the film, and the businesses in the community that sustain the production," Grazer and Howard said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
"We see Governor Kemp's bill as a direct attack on women's rights, and we will be making a donation to the ACLU to support their battle against this oppressive legislation.""
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Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong. The real question is whether it is less bad or wrong than the alternative.
These corporations are coming out as pro-something bad or wrong. That seems to me to be a very bad strategy from folk that might be entirely too obsessed with the twitterati community. Saying nothing would do them no harm, speaking up will do them no good.
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
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Aren't Disney building theme parks in Shanghai and Saudi? To say this is selective outrage is the understatement of the century.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
It's not a man vs woman thing. In fact studies have found that overall women are more pro-life than men, so I don't think men should feel like they can't have an opinion on this. It's a complex moral debate.
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@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
It's not a man vs woman thing. In fact studies have found that overall women are more pro-life than men, so I don't think men should feel like they can't have an opinion on this. It's a complex moral debate.
I don't see how men have a say on women's bodies, particularly women they don't know.
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@antipodean would that also be true of a woman, and her view on women they don't know?
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
It's not a man vs woman thing. In fact studies have found that overall women are more pro-life than men, so I don't think men should feel like they can't have an opinion on this. It's a complex moral debate.
I don't see how men have a say on women's bodies, particularly women they don't know.
We live in society too, we have daughters whom we care for, we vote, we're political representatives who get voted on. It would be extremely irresponsible to not look into the issue, discuss it and try and understand it. There are extremists on both sides who refuse to take part in nuanced discussion, they shouldn't be able to control the conversation unopposed.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
It's not a man vs woman thing. In fact studies have found that overall women are more pro-life than men, so I don't think men should feel like they can't have an opinion on this. It's a complex moral debate.
I don't see how men have a say on women's bodies, particularly women they don't know.
I know a bloke whose ex got an abortion against his will and it still affects him today. I don't think this is just a women's rights issue, unless your argument is that millions of pro-life women want to roll back their rights.
For what it's worth I'm pro-choice up to a point, but I'm pretty tired of the argument that men just need to shut up. It's not particularly helpful when trying to come to any kind of middle ground.
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@Siam said in US Politics:
@antipodean would that also be true of a woman, and her view on women they don't know?
Why wouldn't it?
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@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
It's not a man vs woman thing. In fact studies have found that overall women are more pro-life than men, so I don't think men should feel like they can't have an opinion on this. It's a complex moral debate.
I don't see how men have a say on women's bodies, particularly women they don't know.
We live in society too, we have daughters whom we care for, we vote, we're political representatives who get voted on. It would be extremely irresponsible to not look into the issue, discuss it and try and understand it. There are extremists on both sides who refuse to take part in nuanced discussion, they shouldn't be able to control the conversation unopposed.
Nuanced discussion about what? What business is it of yours what a women does with her body, her health and well-being?
Here's how simple it is, if you're opposed to abortion, don't have one. If you're opposed to other people you don't know having an abortion, STFU.
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@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
It's not a man vs woman thing. In fact studies have found that overall women are more pro-life than men, so I don't think men should feel like they can't have an opinion on this. It's a complex moral debate.
I don't see how men have a say on women's bodies, particularly women they don't know.
I know a bloke whose ex got an abortion against his will and it still affects him today. I don't think this is just a women's rights issue, unless your argument is that millions of pro-life women want to roll back their rights.
Look at it this way; what option is available to your mate? Force her to take it to term?
For what it's worth I'm pro-choice up to a point, but I'm pretty tired of the argument that men just need to shut up. It's not particularly helpful when trying to come to any kind of middle ground.
See above response to @Rembrandt
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@antipodean well then there's no one left with a valid say. A caucus of women and their friends?
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Rembrandt said in US Politics:
Seems super bizarre to me. I'd say the overwhelming majority of people would agree at least on a fundamental level that abortion itself is a bad thing if not wrong.
Perhaps in Georgia. Most people I know keep their personal opinions to themselves if they don't outright support a woman's right to choose. Particularly men.
It's not a man vs woman thing. In fact studies have found that overall women are more pro-life than men, so I don't think men should feel like they can't have an opinion on this. It's a complex moral debate.
I don't see how men have a say on women's bodies, particularly women they don't know.
Here's how simple it is, if you're opposed to abortion, don't have one.
Having been on the less "pure" side of the issue, the above is spot on
It's way too much of a mind fuck for anybody to decipher so live and let live will always be the only solution.
In this modern world, reasonable term abortion must be an option to couples and individuals
Edit: dark pun not intended 🙂
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I guess if the guy has no right to say anything about the child he created then he should equally have no obligation to provide for a child he didn't want. His right to choose and all....